..at guantanamo.anced interrogation techniques which were signed off by the defense secretary donald rumsfeld himself. you've already used the word torture to me, what were the most difficult experiences you went through? so, one day, i remember it's around noon, but i don't think it's at noon. this middle—aged men by the name of richard zuley, lieutenant richard zuley, he called himself captain collins, came to me in my interrogation room and i was then interrogated by staff sergeant mary, the one you saw in the movie who was crying, and he told me that the united states of america decided to kidnap my mother and put her in a men's—only prison, insinuating that she would be raped. he said she would remain in that prison until i confess to my quote—unquote crimes. and at that point i knew there was nothing left for me to lose because the last time i saw my mother is when those police, those cops, in plain clothes, came to my house and led me outside the house, and i could see my mother in the rearview

more than 1a years in guantanamo bay and nine months outside guantanamo bay in a secret prison, so it11. and of course, i still suffer. 15 years after 9/11. and of course, istill suffer. when course, i still suffer. when i was tortured, i was physically tortured and mentally abused for a very long time, and to this day, there are certain triggers that send me right away to the hospital and ijust become like, you know, very sick, and they take me to the hospitalfor sick, and they take me to the hospital for several days, when one of these triggers come. this is not easy. i was tortured like my ribs were broken and i lost my gallbladder, and to this day i sufferfrom gallbladder, and to this day i suffer from that. gallbladder, and to this day i sufferfrom that. no suffer from that. no country accepts, including the uk, to receive me, to for medical assistance. receive me, to for medical assistance-— receive me, to for medical assistance. ., , ., ., assistance. you use that word we became — assistance. you use that word we became familiar _ assistance. you use that word we became familia

the safest place is guantanamo. if it wasn't for liberal judges intervening they would have -- terrorism is still a threat. if we have operations where we capture a lot of high value terrorists in the future, where will they put them? bring them to the united states or send them to some other country where they may not have the protections they do have at guantanamo? gitmo is a suitable place. we are detaining some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. that's where they should stay and future detainees should go. >> harris: nothing recruits like people inside the greatest country in the world having that sort of liberal advocacy on behalf of them. they can talk, they can proselytize. >> i saw that was the case with the blind sheik in the first trade center bombing. he remained an active proselytizeer from federal prison in the united states. >> harris: senator cotton. good to see you today. thank you for your time. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: three top media outlets are retracting their reports about rudy g

military prison in guantanamo bay without charge for two decades. they will reportedly be released to countries that have agreed to impose security surveillance on them. while advocates welcomed biden's move, they say it's not enough and continue to pressure his administration to shut down guantÁnamo. the aclu said -- "an end to almost two decades of military detention of muslim men without charge or trial is a human rights obligation and a national security necessity." at least nine of the 40 remaining prisoners at guantÁnamo have been approved for release. some have been waiting for years for another country to take them in. mexican president andrÉs manuel lÓpez obrador has formally apologized for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 chinese people were killed by mexican revolutionary troops in the northern city of torreÓn. among the victims were children and agricultural workers. the massacre took place during the mexican revolution of 1910 to 1920 and was part of a wave of anti-chinese violence in the region. there are no monuments acknowledging th

during the revolt, the american naval base at guantanamo, cuba, was reinforced as a e precautionary measuret the united states maintained a hands off policy. fidel castro, leader of the factions entered havana in january of 1959 following the flight of batista. castro promised free democratic elections. these never materialized. brutal executions following his war trials and his brothers, castro's chief aides made it increasingly evident that his regime was under russian influence. evidence of communist agents in latin america had previously appeared in venezuela when red inspired mobs disrupted the goodwill tour of vice president and mrs. nixon in 1958. upon their return to washington, the nixon's were hailed by the president for their courage in the face of political gangsterism. a crisis in the congo reflected the problems of new nations complicated by russian interference. on june 30th, 1960, the king of belgium declared the end of the congo status as a colony. patrice lamumba was elected premier. he demanded immediate withdrawal of belgium troops. anti-western riots resulted in which t

senior bush administration in a report from amnesty international in 2005 irene khan wrote about guantanamo bay calling it the gulag of our times and trenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention and violation of international law trials by military commissions have made a mockery of justice and due process. 2005 was someone of a different time than now and that was a big deal. i was in washington at the time as a capitol hill correspondent and i remember the fur it caused in washington defense secretary. donald rumsfeld called the report reprehensible. -- cheney said he was offended. bush called it absurd and the washington post editorial lies that quote lately. the organization has tended to save its most vitriol that condemnations not for the world's dictators, but for the united states it was a clear attempt to try to discredit this organization. i have followed washington politics long enough to know that when top officials attack you instead of ignore you it's because they're scared of you. the white house is attack on the group's credibility for me at that time. was a

but he also investigated systematic torture at guantanamo, according to this confidential report from the u. s. embassy in madrid, he investigated everything. all this gave him a reputation as ambitious wanting to be in the spotlight. i find the true things that go on soon understood that in a globalized world, justice cannot be limited by national border from madrid. he prosecuted the leaders of the dictatorships in argentina and she knew he couldn't do the same at his attempt to investigate crimes committed on the franco blocks by the spanish judiciary. his unorthodox interpretation of the law and him many enemies ah, in 2012. while jolina sons re my means under house arrest, the judge buster saw got phone sits in the dock before the spanish supreme court got on was investigating the country's largest political corruption that work at the time, which also involved the ruling spanish conservative party. he's accused of misconduct and the supreme court delivers its verdict. in a unanimous ruling he's been bought from practicing for 11 years. the court said he could not appeal against

won't take no for an answer if extradited asunder will be celebrating his accomplishments like the guantanamo bay files or the iraq war logs for up to 175 years likely in a maximum security prison the ruling in his case leaves open the possibility for the u.s. governments to pursue journalists and publishers around the world if their report annoys the washington establishment that essential remains in prison underlies the grievous threat to unfettered journalese that these serious legislation poses and of course there's no bigger custodian of journalist safety than the modern day america it is incumbent on all of us to counter these threats to a free and independent media including physical risk and arbitrary detention for one saudi journalist physical risk and arbitrary detention escalated into horrible suffering and death in a matter of minutes jamal khashoggi fell out of favor with the saudi royal family and in 2018 was killed inside their consulate in istanbul reports suggest he was tortured before meeting his death beheaded and dismembered. as his killers go to way on private jets the u.

and 11 other terrorists in cia custody had been transferred to the united states naval base at guantanamo bay thank you. undersell you have a severe score of deaths in thought and the old. it unless a decision. come in so short no. the. deal of. the it is only there because if you. push the minister through and which. in some you more than even the rest. of my system. and the dame in george bush announced there were black sites and they were being closed i could never believe that this day would come because these things were so secret the problem in the united states was that since these detainees were considered to be alleged terrorists there was very little sympathy for them and rightfully i understand that it was more difficult to explain to people however that there were other detainees who were not implicated in attacks who had been mistakenly arrested because of false identity or whatever and they also been tortured. thanks to some very high up contacts marty discovered why certain european countries have collaborated with the united states. is that you needed the. t.v. thing wheth

and because of guantÁnamo. it's very difficult for us.ather we feel that we should not try to intervene in serious violations of human rights. and that i think is very bad. we should continue to want to have an impact on what is happening in other countries. and not just sit by and do nothing. it doesn't mean that we should do it on our own. that's sometimes a mistake. we should play in very important role as we did in the forties and fifties. and other countries working together with other countries. with people in other countries. with ngos. a lot of work is being done and the worst thing is to assume that we can't do anything and that nothing is going to change. there are lots of things happening. for example, i believe that if we had the institutions, the human rights institutions that we have now, both at the un and the regional human rights mechanisms that exist, if that had existed and authorities we probably could've prevented what had happened. so we need to strengthen these institutions and support the governments and people who

afghanistan and some of them were being sent to prisons in afghanistan and some were being sent to guantanamo bay but there were others who simply were disappeared somebody saw a group of men in black take somebody and put them in an airplane and the airport maintenance person took down the tail number and so this tail number led eventually a year later into understanding the renditions were airplane flights done by the cia from certain airports in the united states with certain cover companies fake companies around the world somewhere to do something. we started asking questions about where this plane was what it was who owned it who operated it and journalists from other countries and human rights watch and amnesty international other groups slowly began to figure out more and more about the cia's air travel system. and so now you. to support this system the secret system you have more and more people in more and more countries involved and soon you got the idea that this is a big apparatus a structure that is being put in place that's entirely new for this country. on november the 2nd 2005

legal matter and policy matter if you repeal the 2002 and '91 iraq amfs we can detain the 39 at guantanamo including the 9/11 hijackers on trial in the military commission? >> i think this is something you and i wrestled with and we determined that as we're working through the '01 it needed to be included. my recollection is by repealing '91 and '02 it would not undermine current detainee activities. >> and, todd, when i've been working with jeff or corcoran, todd has been the one to say don't accidentally do something on the revision of '01 that messes around with the detainees or throws the situation into more ambiguity. every discussion we've had, including discussions ongoing with the biden administration, the detainee issue is not connected. >> and we would think otherwise if the bush obama, trump and now biden had filed other habeas cases, which i've analyzed all of them and written about them to say that the 2002 was part of the reason they could be detained and they never mentioned it. there's decades of documents filed with the courts relying on the 2001 amf. i think we can take t

and the fact of the matter is that we lost 17,000 precious lives in that and, for example, in guantanamonterpret this... don't misinterpret the situation and make conclusions. you told me just minutes ago that you believe imran khan was the most popular prime minister in pakistan's history. i'm looking at a late april gallup poll which shows 38% of respondents thought pakistan was heading in roughly the right direction but a1% now believe going in the wrong direction. if one looks at the economic woes are pakistan under imran khan, the fact that you have had an unprecedented recession, the fact that even now, growth rates are minimal and your unemployment and poverty rates are really, really high, there is a profound problem. imran�*s promises to the people have not been delivered. actually, unfortunately, again, i have to say that i don't agree with your conclusion. right now, pakistan's growth rate is 3.98%, 4%, which is one of the highest in the world, because despite all this covid crisis that the world has faced, this is another story about how pakistan faced covid and what a succes

afghanistan and some of them were being sent to prisons in afghanistan and some were being sent to guantanamo bay but there were others who simply were disappeared somebody saw a group of men in black take somebody and put them in an airplane and the airport maintenance person took down the tail number and so this tail number led eventually a year later into us understanding the renditions were airplane flights done by the cia from certain airports in the united states with certain cover companies fake companies around the world somewhere to do something. we started asking questions about where this plane was what it was who owned it who operated it and journalists from other countries and human rights watch and amnesty international other groups slowly began to figure out more and more about the cia's air travel system. and so now you. have a to support of the system the secret system you have more and more people in more and more countries involved and soon you got the idea that this is a big apparatus a structure that is being put in place that's entirely new for this country. on november

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